Improvement in binders  attachments for harvesters



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Binders Attachments for Harvesters.

Patented Jan. 27, 1874..

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Binders" Attachments for Harvesters.

N0. 146,914. v Patentedlan.27,874.

UNITED STATES Prrrnivr CFFICE.

LUBANUS KING, OF POLO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDERS ATTACHMENTS FOR HARVESTERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 146,914, dated January 27, 1874; applicaion filed October 18, 1873.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, LURANUS KING, of Polo, in the county of Ogle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Binding' Attachments for Reapers and I do hereby decla-re that the following is a. full, clea-r, and exact description of the con.- struction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of my binding attachment for reapers. Fig. 2 is a front view of the elevator-frame. Fig. Sis arear view of aharve-ster with my binder-frame attached. Fig. 4 is a detail of the elevator.

This invention ha-s relation to binding attachments for reaping-machines, wherein the grain is elevated from a platform in rear of the cutting appara-tus, and deposited in a con venient place for the binders to take it and apply the bands around it. The nature of my invention and improvements consists in constructing the binders platform with a raised annular grain-receiving table, below which is an annular flanged guard, which receives holding-down rollers, and prevents the escape of loose g'rain from the platform while the machine is in operation.

The following description will enable others skilled in the art to understand my improvements.

In the annexed drawings, A represents the horizontal or bed frame of the binding attachment, which will be supported upon wheels B B', and connected to a platform in rear of the cutting apparatus, in any suitable manner. On this platform an endless carrying-belt or its equivalent will be applied, for delivering the cut grain to the elevators as fast as it is cut. C represents a double inclined frame, which terminates in an acuto an gle at its upper end, and which is stron gl y erected on the bedframe A. To the inner or grain side of this frame an inclined Aendless belt, D, is applied on two horizontal rollers, a a, to which rotation may be communicated in any convenient manner. This belt has slats I) b secured to it, at suitable intervals apart, and in lines parallel to each other, to which slats elevatin g-in gers c are applied, and arranged between grainrests e. Each finger c is a piece of sheet metal, with its ends beveled, and with flanges formed on the end, which is secured to a slat, b. These flanges 'i i are formed on the finger c by simply slitting its broadest end, and spreading the parts in4 opposite directions, as shown in the drawings. Fingers thus made are simple, cheap, and effective, and may be readily stamped out of spring sheet metal.

It will be observed that the anges i i on the fingers are perforated to receive through them the nails by which they are secured to their slats.

The grain-rests are secured to the bed-frame A, and extend up over and parallel to the belt D, and at the upper end of this belt they are curved over it, and then carried downward and over the shaft g'of a revolving rack, G, and secured to a horizontal rod, 7L. Between the shaft g and the discharging-points of the grainrests they are concave, so as to form, with the radial arms g of the rack G, a receptacle for the gavels. The rack G consists of three rows of arms, g', arranged around the shaft g at regular distances apart, so as to form three gavelreceptacles. At one end of the shaft g are three stop -a-rms, jj j, corresponding to said three rows of fingers, which arms engage, one at a time, with a catch, k, applied to a springrod, k', and when so engaged the rack is prevented from turning. Below the rack is a circular horizontal platform, J, supported upon which is an annular table or grain board, J', on which the gavels fall from the rack, and on which they are bound by men standing on the platform J. Below the table J and secured to the platform, is a flanged guard, k. The

platform is centrally supported upon the inner end of the bed-frame A, and kept in place thereon, but allowed to turn by means of a vertical shaft, n. L is a crown-wheel, which is secured concentrically to the bottom of the platform J, and which engages with a pinion, I, and shaft N, that receives rotation from the axle of the transporting-wheel B', through the medium of two pullies and a belt or their equivalents. By these means the platform receives rotation in the direction of the arrow in Fig.

l; and' this motion should be so timed with re- 'I spect to the motion ofthe endless belt D that thc binders on the platform will be successively brought around to the rack (lr at proper times to discharge the gavcls therefrom and bind the same.

As each binder is brought around to the rack G, he presses back the catch 7.', and allows the racl; to discharge a gavel on the table J', and t'all into position again for receiving another gavel. rIhe guard Ii receives beneath its flange two anti-friction rollers, p p, which bear on the platform J, and keep it down in place. The rollers, being thus arranged beneath the Ilan ge on the guard K, are protected from il yin g grain, and will not, therefore, become clogged. At the saine time the lange prevents any undue Weight on the opposite side from forcing the platform downward out of position on the in sido, as it will bear against the rollers 011 their upper surfaces.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is

The annular guard K, having a continuons Bange extending outward from its upper edge, in combination with the revolving binders7 platform .I and the balaneingrollers 1, as speriied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two Witnesses.

DURAN US KING.

Witnesses:

GEORG-n lf). Urnnnj, l). D. KANE. 

